Erika Deak Gallery

ANDI GALDI VINKO If you knew it, why didn’t you do something about it?

How do we talk to our children about the imminent climate disaster, about global conflicts and crises? If You Knew It, Why Didn’t You Do Something About It? With the exuberance and spontaneity of her previous works including her widely acclaimed photobook "Sorry I Disappeared I Gave Birth But Now I'm Back" the Hungarian artist continues to consider the demands of parenthood through the lens of the camera.
This new body of mixed media works incorporates photographs by Gáldi Vinkó with drawing, painting, text, and other elements added by artist Hin, a friend of Gáldi Vinkó, and Gáldi Vinkó's 6-year-old daughter Dana.
The deeply personal, poignant series of photo-based works explores multiple converging perspectives and responses to the climate emergency and visions of the future, capturing the exchanges between a mother to a child. The work also considers the shifting role of photographs in a rapid, intrusive news cycle and the ways it collides with and contradicts a parent's attempts to create a sense of safety and security in the domestic realm.

Andi Gáldi Vinkó (b. 1982) is an internationally acclaimed photographer, her works are visual expressions of honest, intimate emotions. Her creative process is always guided by personal narratives, and her work shows the inseparability of art and life. Andi Gáldi Vinkó’s works have appeared in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, M Le Monde, iD, Die Zeit, and Dazed, among others, and are included in numerous national and international collections. Her recent exhibitions include My Obvious Presence at Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, Birth at TJ Boulting, Variations of Reality at Circulation, Fetart MAC, Paris, Golden Boundaries at Robert Capa Centre.

The Erika Deák Gallery, one of the first commercial galleries in Hungary, was founded in 1998. Ever since it’s opening, the gallery is determined to exhibit timeless, yet progressive Hungarian and international art, in all medium. Besides providing a platform for gallery artists to present their work regularly, the gallery hosts independent projects, and invites a young curator each year to organize a group show, e.g. the critically acclaimed My obvouis presence, an international group exhibiton on lived motherhood. Beside constantly seeking for new artsits, it is also the gallery's mission to continue art historical dialogues and bring different generations together. Erika Deák also founded a scholarship on the Moholy Nagy University, Budapest, where each year she grants an exceptional MA student in curatorial studies.

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